User:Rochelle Asilo

ALLIED WORLD HEALTHCARE

Allied World Healthcare (AWH) is a social enterprise looking to connect underserved communities to essential healthcare services. The AWH model centres around digital health, training local community members to use technology and provide a basic level of healthcare support. Their work looks to support a range of to low- and middle-income countries, with a current focus on the Philippines. AWH started a new project in December 2016 called ECHO (Equitable Community Health Outreach), in the Philippines. This involves designing a community-led healthcare model for areas that currently lack access to basic services and working with community resources (ranging from schools and shops to local healthcare workers) to provide more comprehensive medical advice and support better access into the existing health systems.

HISTORY

The organisation was established on January 2016 by Chief Executive Officer Edward Booty in Singapore. Later on, he was joined by Jim Poole as Chief Technology Officer. Several partnerships with leading organizations and universities were established to produce the main technology platform of AWH named Curis. Since then, Project ECHO piloted in the Philippines and later on to other Southeast Asian countries.

TRACTION

Currently, AWH has focused on communities in the Panay Island, Philippines, such as Pototan, Iloilo, Cuartero, Capiz.

SERVICES

AWH provides all: •	Software and technology; •	Project and programme management for implementation work; •	Community engagement, and stakeholder management at a local, regional and national level; •	Strategic planning and research; •	Engagement with a number of private sector organisations to enable access to discounted, essential products

For more information, visit www.alliedworld.healthcare